Artist
Aaron Siskind (American, 1903–1991)American, 1903–1991
CultureAmerican
Titles
- Lady in Kitchen
- from the series Harlem Document
Date1937, printed 1976
Place depictedNew York City, New York, United States
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 10 1/2 × 7 13/16 in. (26.7 × 19.8 cm)
Sheet: 14 × 10 7/8 in. (35.6 × 27.6 cm)
Sheet: 14 × 10 7/8 in. (35.6 × 27.6 cm)
Credit LineGift of Gay Block
Object number83.28.12
Not on view
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Department
PhotographyObject Type
Harlem Document
was a multiyear, group Photo League project led by Aaron Siskind documenting
life in Harlem. The group, which included eight other league photographers and
the writer Michael Carter, exhibited 40 prints from the project in an
exhibition titled Toward a Harlem
Document in 1939. Although they had hoped to create a book, photographs from
the project remained mostly unpublished until decades later when Aaron Siskind—without
including the other Harlem Document
photographers—published a collection of his images in 1981.
ProvenanceGay Block, Santa Fe, New Mexico; given to MFAH, 1983.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
verso bottom left to right in pencil " Harlem 1937 Lady in Kitchen 12.1 "
bottom right below image in ink " Aaron Siskind "
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